Nov. 24, 2018, 3:23 p.m.

Lou Cvijanovich, a basketball coach at Oxnard Santa Clara who retired in 1999 as the state’s winningest high school basketball coach with 829 wins, has died, family friend Pat Frank said Saturday. He was 92.

Frank, the basketball coach at Ventura St. Bonaventure, said Cvijanovich died at his home on Saturday in Oxnard, which he shared with his wife, Martha.

Cvijanovich is member of the California High School Sports Hall of Fame and National High School Hall of Fame. He accomplished the rare feat of coaching Southern Section championship teams in football, basketball and baseball.

Nov. 24, 2018, 12:28 p.m.

Nico Young of Newbury Park won the Division II state cross-country championship. (Jeremiah Soifer)

All hail Temecula Great Oak, the school of runners.

Great Oak became the first team to win five consecutive California Division I boys titles at Saturday’s state cross-country championships at Woodward Park in Fresno.

Then Great Oaks’ girls’ team won its seventh straight championship, edging league rival Vista Murrieta 79-83 in Division 1. The boys and girls teams have won a combined 13 state titles under coach Doug Soles.

Nov. 21, 2018, 7:07 p.m.

Charisma Osborne of Windward scored 30 points in a win over Harvard-Westlake on Wednesday. (Nick Koza)

Big games always seem to bring out the best in the reigning Southern California player of the year, Charisma Osborne.

It happened again on Wednesday night in a rematch of last season’s Southern Section Open Division championship game between Windward and Harvard-Westlake.

The Wolverines held a one-point lead after the first quarter. Then Osborne’s defense and scoring took over. She had 14 points in the second quarter en route to a 30-point performance that lifted Windward (3-0) to a 73-43 victory at Redondo High.

Nov. 21, 2018, 12:48 p.m.

Quarterbacks Luca Diamont of Venice and Scott Harris of Fairfax have been named the co-players of the year in the Western League. Diamont is a junior.

The offensive player of the year was Max Palees, a junior running back at Palisades. The defensive player of the year was Kendrell Ross of Fairfax. The offensive and defensive linemen of the year were Cristian Ferrufino of Fairfax and Jack Stansell of Palisades.

The kicker of the year was Juan Mendoza of Fairfax. The punter of the year was junior Tommy Meek of Palisades.